Rutgers Art & Design, Mason Gross

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Housed within a nationally ranked research university, the Department of Art & Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts seeks to cultivate a diverse community that values visual literacy, critical dialogue, experimentation, and the skills necessary for sustaining a creative life as artists and designers. Central to its vision is engaging in interdisciplinary research and embarking on collaboration

s within Rutgers and beyond, leaving an imprint on the global arenas of contemporary art and design. Studio training is offered in the areas of design, drawing, media, painting, photography, print, and sculpture. The department offers five degree programs: a bachelor of arts, a bachelor of fine arts in both visual arts and design, and a master of fine arts in both visual arts and design, as well as a minor in art. Mason Gross Galleries, a 4,200 square-foot space, is devoted to experimentation and showcases up to 10 student exhibitions per year—all free and open to the public.

BFA visual arts alum Claudio Mir has been named Middlesex College’s 2024 Alumnus of the Year and will deliver their comm...
04/26/2024

BFA visual arts alum Claudio Mir has been named Middlesex College’s 2024 Alumnus of the Year and will deliver their commencement address on May 16. Claudio is the senior program coordinator for community outreach at the Rutgers Collaborative Center for Community Engagement and co-director of the Rutgers Bonner Leader Program.

Link to full feature article in bio….congrats, Claudio!

DESIGN LECTURE: Lia PetronioTues, April 23 at 5:40pmZoom Data Visualization Engineer, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard...
04/19/2024

DESIGN LECTURE: Lia Petronio
Tues, April 23 at 5:40pm
Zoom
Data Visualization Engineer, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Lia grew up in northern New Jersey where she earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Rutgers University, with a concentration in Drawing and Design. After graduating, she moved to Boston for a Master’s in Fine Arts in Information Design and Visualization at Northeastern University. Lia worked in Northeastern’s Communications Department creating visualizations for data-driven news stories to promote university research and taught courses on design and web-development. A few years later, with a desire to get closer to data and an interest in disease biology, she joined the Broad Institute as a data visualization engineer, where she designs and develops visualization tools and resources for exploring and explaining genomic research. Her work currently focuses on a data portal for drug compound screening results in the context of cancer. Lia is passionate about finding new ways to visualize complex data by leveraging visual perception and math. In her free time, Lia makes collages, videos, and other art, goes for long walks, rides her OneWheel, and skateboards.

DESIGN LECTURE TONIGHT: Yehwan SongTues, April 16 at 5:40pmCivic Square Building Room 110Yehwan Song is a Korean-born, N...
04/16/2024

DESIGN LECTURE TONIGHT: Yehwan Song
Tues, April 16 at 5:40pm
Civic Square Building Room 110

Yehwan Song is a Korean-born, New York-based web artist specializing in creating non-user-centric, unconventional, and diverse independent internet spaces. Their primary focus in projects is on exploring the discomfort and insecurity experienced by marginalized users, which is often hidden beneath the facade of technological utopianism, marked by excessive comfort, speed, and ease of use. Yehwan satirizes and critiques the overgeneralization of users and the prevalence of templated websites by creating non-generic web interfaces and performing with these websites and devices.

Cheers to our Department Chair, Jackie Thaw, for receiving The Provost Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Resear...
04/11/2024

Cheers to our Department Chair, Jackie Thaw, for receiving The Provost Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research at Rutgers...such a well-deserved honor for her far reaching work in Design, Arts in Health, and so many other timely social intersections! 🏆

Visiting Artist Lecture: Eric N. MackTONIGHT, April 3, 2024 at 7:00pmCivic Square Building, Room 11033 Livingston Avenu...
04/03/2024

Visiting Artist Lecture: Eric N. Mack
TONIGHT, April 3, 2024 at 7:00pm
Civic Square Building, Room 110
33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ

Eric N. Mack’s work varies from sculpture and installation, to wall pieces and work on paper. His aesthetic involves a particular type of tactility and usage of common items, primarily those related to clothing. Readymade elements, such as garments, blankets, pegboards, magazine pages, and grommets, recompose and transmute via usage of mediums like acrylic paint, glitter, and dye. Mack’s visual language speaks through these materials, as well as through color and texture, optics and flux. His works flow and shift, alive with a spectrum of hues, irregular shapes, and poetic drama. References to the fashion industry and the figure impart a seductive quality, connecting to identity or a material fiction of desire and intention.

Design Lecture: Alissa LevinTONIGHT! April 2, 2024 at 5:40pmCivic Square Building, Room 110 Alissa Levin is founder and ...
04/02/2024

Design Lecture: Alissa Levin
TONIGHT! April 2, 2024 at 5:40pm
Civic Square Building, Room 110

Alissa Levin is founder and creative director of Point Five, a New York City-based creative studio. For 27 years, she has led the studio in designing brands, editorial, and communication strategies for the organizations shaping the big conversations of our time. Levin’s areas of focus include art direction and editorial strategy, and she particularly loves to partner with clients at the forefront of scientific, political, religious, and social advancement that bring groundbreaking work to a public audience.

ON.THE.COVER: Congratulations to Art & Design BFA alumna Jamian Juliano-Villani, whose work is gracing the cover of ARTF...
04/01/2024

ON.THE.COVER: Congratulations to Art & Design BFA alumna Jamian Juliano-Villani, whose work is gracing the cover of ARTFORUM this month. Her solo show at Gagosian Chelsea is on view through April 20. Check out our linktr.ee for full feature article! 🔥🔥⭐️🔥🔥

, we’re thrilled for you

DANCE PARTY TONIGHT: Spring Festival Closing party w live DJ and pizza 🍕 🍕 7-10pm, CSB 110
03/29/2024

DANCE PARTY TONIGHT: Spring Festival Closing party w live DJ and pizza 🍕 🍕 7-10pm, CSB 110

BFA Thesis II in full effect through April 5 in Mason Gross Galleries. Has been an epic day, and epic night. Congratulat...
03/29/2024

BFA Thesis II in full effect through April 5 in Mason Gross Galleries. Has been an epic day, and epic night. Congratulations to the incredible undergrad artists who have celebrated the culmination of their journey with us tonight! Don’t miss your chance to see this show! So proud 💫💕💫

DESIGN LECTURE: Dina BenbrahimTonight! March 26 at 5:40pm,Civic Square Building Room 110Dina Benbrahim is a Moroccan mu...
03/26/2024

DESIGN LECTURE: Dina Benbrahim

Tonight! March 26 at 5:40pm,

Civic Square Building Room 110

Dina Benbrahim is a Moroccan multidisciplinary creative, educator, organizer, and researcher who uses an intersectional feminist lens to dissent and investigate design for visibility, civic action, and social justice with minoritized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures

Panel Discussion: Collaboration in the ArtsThurs, March 21, 20246-7:30pm, Alexander Library, 4th floor Hosted by the Rut...
03/15/2024

Panel Discussion: Collaboration in the Arts

Thurs, March 21, 2024
6-7:30pm, Alexander Library, 4th floor

Hosted by the Rutgers Art Network

Moderated by Claudio Mir, Senior Program Coordinator at the Collaborative Center for Community Engagement

Panelists

Rick Anderson, Co-Director of the Makerspace and Director of Virtual Worlds for Rutgers University,

Heather Hart, Associate Professor, Art & Design and Co-Founder of Black Lunch Table

Jackie Thaw, Chair, Art & Design and Faculty Co-Leader of the Arts in Health Lab at Rutgers

Please RSVP at: https://go.rutgers.edu/RUANMarch21

Pizza and Salad will be served

Students work with interdisciplinary designers and artists to realize creative ideas that address real-world issues. Sup...
02/16/2024

Students work with interdisciplinary designers and artists to realize creative ideas that address real-world issues. Support includes partial scholarships, employment in the department, and potential teaching opportunities. Contact the program director [email protected] to learn more or visit https://go.rutgers.edu/MFA-design


Image Credit: Corina Coughlan (MFA in Design ‘24), Leona Chung (MFA in Design ‘23), Karri Fallat (MFA in Design ‘23)

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